GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A state agency’s 50th anniversary tour of Michigan will make a stop Tuesday, Sept. 17, at City Hall for a public hearing of civil rights concerns.

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission will take comments 6 p.m. on the ninth floor of City Hall, 300 Monroe Ave. NW. The visit is part of a 50-city tour that began earlier this year and continues through early 2014.

“One of the things we’re trying to determine through these is what are the civil rights issues that local folks are facing,” said Vicki Levengood, agency spokeswoman. “We never know what’s going to come up at these.”

The state agency earlier this year made a stop in Holland, where the City Council’s refusal to adopt an anti-discrimination ordinance regarding sexual orientation and gender identity is a political issue in this year’s elections. Grand Rapids for years has had a city ordinance in place protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from housing and employment discrimination.